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} HAT SWEAT. No. 324,082. Patented Aug. -11-,' 1885.

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UNITED STATES HENRY GHARMBURY, OF NEWARK, NElV JERSEY.

HAT-SWEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,082, dated August 11, 1885.

Application filed July 11, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known I, HENRY GHARMBURY, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sweat-Leathers for Hats; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings. and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to that class of sweat leathers for mens hats in which reeds or stiffeners are sewed, by a suitable sewing-machine, to the outer edges thereof, said reed being first inclosed in a loop leather or fabric, the free edges of which are employed in sewing the said leather into the hat.

The object of the invention is to provide a leather which, while possessing the ad vantages derived from the reed and inclosing fabric, will be devoid of the objectionable features thereof, and will resemble acertain imported articlein which no reed appears.

Both reeds and finishing-cords have been used heretofore, two common methods being shown in Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4; the first being to arrange the reed a and its loop 12 so as to form a beading which projects beyond the leather proper,forining a groove between said edge and heading, in which the silk finishingcord 0 is laid. The stitching e, which holds the parts together but not to the hat, passes through both the sweat-leather d and the loop fabric, over the said finishing-cord but passes over the beading; but in this case no finishingsilk is employed.

1n carr m out m invention I arran e a: y 7 a the parts as shown in Figs. 5, 6, and 7, by which the improved construction is illustrated, Fig. 5 being a front elevation of the device, and Figs. 6 and 7 showing sections of the same, slight differences in the relations of the parts being shown. In said Figs. 5, 6, and 7, k is the sweat-leather proper, g a loop inclosinga reed or stiffener, h, and f a silk finishing-cord, preferably of some bright color. The edge of the leather 7c, the inclosed reed, and the said finishing-cord are all encircled and bound together by the stitching j,the loop, with its reed, lying behind the sweat-leather so as to be concealed from view when the leather, as a whole, is applied to the hat,sewed thereto by means of the free edges Z of the loop fabric. When so applied, the leather proper: appears to be sewed by the stitches j to the hat-body, which stitches inclose the finishing-cord f, lying over or covering the unfinished edge of the said leather, thus resembling an imported hat,ieferred to,in which the said leather and cord are,in fact,sewed by hand therein, but which has no reed over which the leather isstretched, or free edges Z, whereby the leather might be basted to the hat-lining with facility.

It will of course be understood that the improved sweat-leather is in itself an article of manufacture and sale independent of the hat.

\Vhat I claim as inyinvention is As an improved article of manufacture, a sweat leather for bats, having the leather k, the reed inclosed in a loop fabric, and at the side of said leather along the edge thereof, and a finishing-cord, f, arranged to cover the edge of the saidleather', said edge, said cord, and said inclosed reed all being bound together by encircling stitches or stitching j, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 21st day of June, 1.884.

HENRY GHARMBURY.

Witnesses:

GHAnLEs H. PnLL, FREDERICK F. CAMPBELL. 

